The Windhoek Declaration has been officially added to UNESCO’s Memory of the World register.

The announcement was made on Wednesday during a ceremony in Brussels.

The Windhoek Declaration was created in 1991 by African journalists and media professionals during a UNESCO seminar in Windhoek.

Black smoke was released from the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday night, indicating that the first vote of the Papal Conclave had ended without a new pope being chosen.

The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industries, Mines and Energy, Natangue Ithete, says the government is doing everything in its power to apprehend the people who stole diamonds worth more than N$300 million from NAMDIA.

The Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) hosted a delegation from the Malawi Broadcasting Corporation as part of a benchmarking visit.

The visit aims to help the two public broadcasters share knowledge, improve their services and strengthen regional ties.

Three suspects, George Cloete, his wife Charmaine and brother Bino Cloete, briefly appeared in the Keetmanshoop Magistrate's Court on two counts of contravening the Prevention of Organised Crime (POCA) and illicit trafficking of goods under the Diamond Act.